Category: HAQM Elastic File System (EFS)

Today we are announcing a new price reduction – one of the largest in AWS Cloud history to date – when using Infrequent Access (IA) with Lifecycle Management with HAQM Elastic File System (HAQM EFS). This price reduction makes it possible to optimize cost even further and automatically save up to 92% on file storage […]

HAQM Elastic File System (HAQM EFS) lets you create petabyte-scale file systems that can be accessed in massively parallel fashion from hundreds or thousands of EC2 instances and on-premises servers, while scaling on demand without disrupting applications. Since the mid-2016 launch of EFS, we have added many new features including encryption of data at rest […]

HAQM Elastic File System (HAQM EFS) lets you create petabyte-scale file systems that can be accessed in massively parallel fashion from hundreds or thousands of HAQM Elastic Compute Cloud (HAQM EC2) servers and on-premises resources, scaling on demand without disrupting applications. Behind the scenes, storage is distributed across multiple Availability Zones and redundant storage servers […]

HAQM Elastic File System (HAQM EFS) was designed to be the file system of choice for cloud-native applications that require shared access to file-based storage. We launched EFS in mid-2016 and have added several important features since then including on-premises access via Direct Connect and encryption of data at rest. We have also made EFS […]

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We launched HAQM Elastic File System (HAQM EFS) in production form a little over a year ago (see HAQM Elastic File System – Production Ready in Three Regions for more information). Later in the year we added On-Premises access via Direct Connect and made EFS available in the US East (Ohio) Region, following up this […]

I introduced you to HAQM Elastic File System (HAQM EFS) last year (HAQM Elastic File System – Shared File Storage for HAQM EC2) and announced production readiness earlier this year (HAQM Elastic File System – Production-Ready in Three Regions). Since the launch earlier this year, thousands of AWS customers have used it to set up, […]

The portfolio of AWS storage products has grown increasingly rich and diverse over time. HAQM S3 started out with a single storage class and has grown to include storage classes for regular, infrequently accessed, and archived objects. Similarly, HAQM Elastic Block Store (HAQM EBS) began with a single volume type and now offers a choice […]